No matter if you use fresh pumpkin or the canned variety, my mom's best pumpkin bread recipe will win your family over in no time!
Course Breakfast
Prep Time 20mins
Cook Time 1hr15mins
Total Time 1hr35mins
Servings 24slices
Calories 282
Author Cheryl Najafi
Ingredients
3 1/2cupsall-purpose floursifted
2tspbaking soda
1tspcinnamon
1/2tspground nutmeg
1/4tspground cloves
1 1/2tspsalt
1/2tspbaking powder
15oz canpumpkin purée
1cupoil
2/3cupwaterwarm
4eggs
3cupsgranulated sugar
1/2cupnutsoptional
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare two loaf pans by spraying with cooking spray. Place parchment in each pan sticking up over each long side. These will be your handles to pull out the loaf when cooled. Press parchment to stick to sides of pan and spray again. Set aside.
Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, salt and baking powder in medium bowl and set aside.
Mix pumpkin purée, oil and warm water in large bowl. Add eggs 1 at a time to pumpkin mixture, stirring continuously. Add sugar and mix well.
Add dry ingredients 1 cup at a time, stirring continuously. Add nuts if desired.
Pour mixed ingredients into 2 prepared pans and bake 60-75 minutes.
Remove from oven, let cool 10 minutes in loaf pan before inverting to cooling rack. Enjoy!
Notes
Pumpkin is great secret moist-maker ingredient and it doesn't always have to be sweet; such is the case with our pumpkin cloverleaf rolls.